The Screen Savers - Quake 3 Tips with Fatal1ty + Thresh

[@crackpippi]

This is the golden age of PC gaming. CRT screens, compaq keyboards mouses (with the ball). God I miss these days.

[@a.schmidt5824]

absolutley captured one of the earliest footsteps to were we are has arrived today, but it has turned into not what we did expected it to be :(

[@gzaos]

haha you can keep your keyboard and mouses i am happy where we are today. But kinda agree with CRT

[@damiantwins1]

To those that argue that "The scene was very small back in thresh's day", remember that back in the day, everyone played the same game as there wasn't so many different FPS to choose from so even if the scene was smaller, almost everyone played that game rather than now where that is divided up between countless FPS's. Back in the day you had Wolfenstein/Doom then Quake, and that's pretty much it. Sister spin offs like Heretic and Hexxen Thresh also won.

[@Khorney]

+damiantwins1 Thresh really was in a league of his own back then. Alot of the players nowadays have no knowledge of the impact the guy had and how intelligently he played.

[@AcceleratedEvolution]

+damiantwins1 the reason a lot of great champion players have become forgotten is esports blew up - and even the champ himself a lot of kids don't know (John Fatal1ty Wendel in other words) - I know that I was well known in endless games for years and now its a rarity to have someone know me without....... google first.

[@truckcompany]

These guys have really great personalities. Can't say much about the pros these days.

[@manafro2714]

I was nodding in agreement as I was reading your comment and then noticed that you posted it 8 years ago. Guess some things never change. :) (Just kidding, I think many pros of our time also have great personalities.)

[@Falcrist]

Holy shit Dennis Fong is a multi-millionaire. He made X-Fire, and Raptr. Well done!

[@criticalcaleb]

screen savers was the best show on television. I wish it was still on - Thanks for all the good gaming / tech tips years ago!

[@fyte4luv23]

Thresh the legend. Props!

[@zomfgmegadeth]

Everything they were talking about in the end turned into what MLG is, so cool!

[@TheRiotousMind]

TechTV. I remember coming home from school and watching this channel.

[@farfigneugan]

wow. old school. Way before I knew who either of these guys were.

[@Nyoni4life]

recorded may 2002 it says in desription

[@MuffinStuffer]

Duuuuuude I used to love this show

[@Fel1xF7W]

the quake 3 engine was amazing for movement, i hope the test builds for ioquake3 come back to the website soon

[@Krass.Estranged]

Strafe jumping, height advantage and door warfare are still massive aspects of FPS. Interesting how little has changed.

[@offlinecommando5839]

wow, good times!

[@swooc]

thresh's tips suck balls. i like how his eyes was full of envy when he was watching fatality do the plasma/jumppad tip.

[@sc300tproject]

Thresh was good!! I played him once on K9's server, and he owned the ish out of me..

[@mistaUHOH215]

Used to be. There are newer LED screen monitors that caught up with the refresh rates that CRT monitors have. I'm using a Benq XL24010T and it's an amazing monitor and very sharp. If you're looking into getting a new LED monitor for gaming please pay close attention to the refresh rates you want to look for 120hz

[@NomortaL]

7:15, they typed his name Johnathon ....thon...

[@Fel1xF7W]

JohnTron's brother

[@TokenFanatic]

TechTV then G4tv, good memories.

[@NightmareSTD]

im gonna say about 7 years ago

[@Farsalla]

2008 its real

[@NightmareSTD]

lol a little late i posted this 2 years ago but this is what happend. I was a little kid with my parents and went to the movie theaters. Apparently they had some like gaming tournament and next to it was this giant booth with a giant TV screen that said "If you can beat fatal1ty in Quake we will give you $1000" So i played him and they had a commentator commentating it and i had no idea what was happening and he beat me along with several random people like 20 to 0. But he gave me sum free stuff

[@TheGhettoLobster]

This channel was the shit RIP

[@NightmareSTD]

hey i played fatal1ty when i was a little kid

[@Khorney]

@DevastatioN1337 How did he avoid them? He played in Several PGL's and in red annihlation. Seems to me other players avoided him... There were no real major lan tournaments at the time.

[@rikkeeked]

Not anymore! Now we have 2ms delay 120hz LCD monitors.

[@mkygod]

For the most part. Only 3D LCD monitors are the exception because they can accept 120hz video input which is needed for 3D. So if you want to play a game at faster than 60fps, get a 3d LCD monitor. However, with LCD 3D TV screens, I am not sure about. Some HDTVs might say 240hz or 480hz, but that is internal refresh rate only, not input refresh rate. It is best to look at the manual (available online in PDF) to see what resolutions and frequencies are supported through the HDMI/PC input.

[@BobTh3Bully]

'' like if you have a pentium 4, 1.8Ghz or 2.5Ghz your will be flying'' lolololol :)

[@Falcrist]

I wonder what happened to Dennis Fong…

[@Farsalla]

even better

[@rikkeeked]

Yeah, I remember he used to do this kind of show matches. How long ago it was? Thanks for sharing your story )

[@DevastatioN1337]

Hey, most games were played over IRC online. He would tell people to play his "brother" to see if they were worthy to play him... and if they ever beat his brother he refused to play. PGL's and Red Annihilation were Quake not doom, I have no doubt he was great at quake for his time, just in doom there were better but some unfortunate things happened. Most of the good players couldn't play at DMCon'95 cause it was DWANGO only unfortunately. Such as NoSkill, Chunkk.

[@MrUnsign]

Ol' School

[@Housesider]

Them talking about the Pro Gaming leagues, and now we have a shit load of them. Kinda odd.

[@DevastatioN1337]

Annoyingly Thresh considered himself a champion at doom and doom2, when in reality he always avoided the good players. He was good at quake when it first came out though, so that's important I'm sure.

[@joocrazyman455]

hahaha,love that quote

[@TheMuffinMan86]

Solid FPS there for 2002...

[@karlsav]

It's funny 10 years ago when I was big into quake and col etc , the same converstions about cybergames were happening then too. Poker has taken over the world now when it comes to live and online gaming

[@DirtyAstronaut]

Well this didnt age well. Esports are back like crazy lol. Who the fuck watches poker.

[@buckyisdan]

it used to work, but it doesn't work anymore. they removed several of these tricks with quake live.

[@darkslide180]

this is what they stole from us

[@Khorney]

@swooc Thresh's tip is more useful for noobs though.

[@vadergaming8195]

no he just talks with an accent and his voice is quite soft. :S

[@rikkeeked]

Can you please tell me about it if it's true? =) Just curious

[@RenegadeFury]

y helo thar fatal1ty

[@NZyoutube]

Fatal1ty looks like Ellen LOL

[@joocrazyman455]

quake live is a "pro game"

[@vadergaming8195]

The rights of CPL are owned by this chinese guy and CGS is coming back.

[@RareVDO]

Yeh yeh yeh. Thresh evny Fatal1ty?? Are you kidding?? Both of them are gaming greats. But I gotta say 10 years down the track. Who do u think will envy who? Fatal1ty right now is still a so called "Pro gamer" when there isnt' much "pro game" tournament left in this economic climate. While Thresh is the founder XFIRE.

[@th3saints]

@RareVDO Nah it's all about the cooller cypher av3k and rapha. But i guess RAPHA is the next super star!

[@mitsuracer87]

th3saints you predicted the future

[@rikkeeked]

Don't you understand it was not about showing tips to players, but about promoting the game and cybersport in general? And, ofcourse, making some money for that tv channel=)

[@SoftBreadSoft]

8:32 :)

[@myspace4408]

What's wrong?

[@SoftBreadSoft]

@@myspace4408 Nothing, we made it. Gamers are rising up

[@KitireFel]

@Roadstar1602 hhahahahahahahahah

[@powderhungry6611]

That guy telling Thresh that he's just a nerd, that is hilarious. Then he went and said that bringing games to console will make games more socially acceptable, instead being a dork and playing games on a computer. He said that right to his face, and you can see a little smile light up on Thresh like, 'this guy is on to me, what do I say now'.

[@vadergaming8195]

yeah I doubt she'd marry you either ;)

[@mkygod]

Ironically, those old machines w/ CRT monitors will run Quake3 at higher FPS than todays powerful computers with LCD monitors that are capped at 60hz.

[@fodolocraigo8426]

so wrong. wtf? 60?

[@beri4138]

@@fodolocraigo8426 When I played back in 2010 everyone had a 60hz monitor.

[@zyxid]

142fps, I smell cheat

[@monsieurvalentine]

ugh, the hosts are awful. they're so condescending, and wont let them speak more than a few words before interrupting them.

[@Roadstar1602]

What's weird about this is Thresh had already retired from gaming when this video was made. He never played Quake III competitively. Probably because that game sucked.